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The Handbook of Communication Ethics
Edited by George Cheney, Steve May, and Debashish Munshi
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Author Biographies
EDITORS
George Cheney (PhD, Purdue University, 1985) is the John T. Jones Centennial
Professor of Communication Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. Previously, he held faculty appointments at the universities of Illinois, Colorado, Montana, and Utah. Also, he serves as Adjunct Professor of Management Communication
at the University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand. George has lectured, taught,
consulted, or conducted research in Denmark, The Netherlands, Mexico, Colombia,
and the Basque Country (Spain). His research and teaching interests include identity
and power at work, organizational democracy and participation, marketization and
globalization, and the rhetoric of peace and war, in addition to professional ethics.
George has (co-)authored or (co-)edited seven books as well as 90 articles, chapters,
and commentaries. He is a past chair of the Organizational Communication Division
of the National Communication Association; has been recognized for instruction,
scholarship, and service; and maintains a strong commitment to community engagement.
Steve May (PhD, University of Utah, 1993) is Associate Professor of Communication
Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Professor May’s research
focuses on the relationship between work and identity, as it relates to the boundaries
of public/private, work/family, and labor/leisure. His books include The Debate Over
Corporate Social Responsibility (with George Cheney and Juliet Roper), Case Studies in Organizational Communication: Ethical Perspectives and Practices, and Engaging Organizational Communication Theory and Research: Multiple Perspectives
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(with Dennis Mumby). He is a Leadership Fellow at the Institute for the Arts and
the Humanities and an Ethics Fellow at the Parr Center for Ethics. He was named
a Houle Engaged Scholar by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a
Page Legacy Scholar by Pennsylvania State University. In addition, he serves as an
ethics advisor for the Ethics at Work program at Duke University’s Kenan Institute
for Ethics. He is a past editor of Management Communication Quarterly and associate editor of The Journal of Applied Communication Research and The Journal of
Business Communication.
Debashish Munshi (PhD, University of Waikato, 2000) is an Associate Professor in
the Department of Management Communication at the University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand. He is an interdisciplinary scholar with a special interest in issues of diversity, equity, ethics, and sustainability and brings theoretical perspectives
from cultural studies, postcolonial studies, and development studies into the study
of communication in organizations. He is coauthor of Reconfiguring Public Relations: Ecology, Equity and Enterprise and coeditor of On the Edges of Development:
Cultural Interventions. His work has been published in a range of international journals including Management Communication Quarterly, New Media & Society, Business Communication Quarterly, Cultural Politics, Public Relations Review, Feminist
Media Studies, Review of Communication, and Futures.
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Ronald C. Arnett (PhD, Ohio University, 1977) is Chair and Professor of the Department of Communication & Rhetorical Studies at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania, USA. He is Editor of the Review of Communication and is author/
coauthor of nine books, including, most recently, Communication Ethics Literacy:
Dialogue and Difference (with Janie M. Harden Fritz and Leeanne M. Bell, 2009).
Rajeev Bhargava (PhD, Oxford University, 1988) is Director of the Centre for the
Study of Developing Societies, Delhi. He was previously Professor at Jawaharlal
Nehru University, Delhi. He has held fellowships at Harvard, Columbia, Bristol, and
Jerusalem. He is currently a Fellow at Wissenschaftskolleg, Berlin (2009–2010). His
books include Individualism in Social Science (Clarendon Press, 1992), What is Political Theory and Why Do We Need It (Oxford University Press, 2010), The Promise
of India’s Secular Democracy (Oxford University Press, 2010) and Secularism and
Its Critics (Ed. Oxford University Press, 1998).
Keith R. Benson (PhD, Oregon State University, 1979) is an historian of biology,
with a special interest in the history of biology in North America, the history of
marine sciences, the history of developmental biology, and biology and society. He
recently retired from the University of British Columbia where he was Professor of
History. He edited six volumes, published numerous articles and chapters and is currently Editor-in-Chief of History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences.
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Kirsten J. Broadfoot (PhD, University of Colorado at Boulder, 2003) is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Colorado, USA. Her main research interests encompass diverse
global perspectives on organizing processes, new forms of working and workplaces,
and the quest for “good work” in everyday professional life.
Patrice M. Buzzanell (PhD, Purdue University, 1987) is Professor and the W.
Charles and Ann Redding Faculty Fellow in the Department of Communication at
Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, USA. Her research takes a feminist
lens to leadership, work–life issues, and careers, particularly engineering careers.
John Angus Campbell (PhD, University of Pittsburgh, 1968) is Professor Emeritus,
and Graduate Faculty member, Department of Communication at the University of
Memphis. He is a founding scholar of the rhetoric of science and past President of the
American Association for the Rhetoric of Science and Technology.
Clifford G. Christians (PhD, Illinois, 1974) is Research Professor of Communications at the University of Illinois-Urbana, with joint appointments as Professor
of Media Studies and of Journalism. His research and teaching interests are media
ethics, philosophy of technology, and dialogic communication theory. He coauthored
Media Ethics: Cases and Moral Reasoning, now in its eighth edition.
Lars Thøger Christensen (PhD, Odense University, 1993) is Professor of Communication at the Department of Marketing & Management, The University of Southern
Denmark. His research interests include critical and postmodern approaches to organizational and corporate communications. In addition to six books, his research appears in Organization Studies, European Journal of Marketing, The New Handbook
of Organizational Communication, and elsewhere.
Charles Conrad (PhD, University of Kansas, 1980) is a Professor and Honors
Scholar-Teacher at Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas, USA. His most
recent book, Global Engineering: Design, Decision-making and Communication
(2010) is the outcome of a NSF/CONACyT-funded interdisciplinary project involving
researchers in the United States and Mexico and based on participant-observations
of MNCs operating in countries other than their home base. He currently is working
on three projects: Organizational Rhetoric: Domination and Resistance, In the Long
Run We’re All Dead, a close-comparison of the role that organizational rhetoric plays
in healthcare policymaking in the United States and Canada, and the seventh edition
of Strategic Organizational Communication with M. Scott Poole.
Sean Cubitt (PhD, Liverpool John Moores University, 2001) is Director of the Program in Media and Communications at the University of Melbourne, Australia. His
publications include Timeshift, Videography, Digital Aesthetics, Simulation and Social Theory, The Cinema Effect, and EcoMedia. He researches the history and philosophy, and political economy of media.
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Radha D’Souza (PhD, University of Auckland, 2003) is a Reader in Law at the
School of Law, University of Westminster, UK. Her research interests include global
and social justice, social movements, law and development, colonialism and imperialism, sociolegal studies in the “Third World,” and water conflicts. She practiced as a
barrister at the High Court of Mumbai, India. Radha is a social justice activist, writer,
and commentator.
Kevin Michael DeLuca (PhD, Iowa, 1996) is an Associate Professor of Communication at the University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA and author of the book
Image Politics: The New Rhetoric of Environmental Activism. DeLuca explores humanity’s relations to nature and how those relations are mediated and transformed by
technological and ideological discourses. Having published essays on environmental
politics, new media, social movement practices, and visual rhetoric, DeLuca is now
writing and doing documentary film work on environmental activism, art, and the
public screen in China.
Charles Ess (PhD, Pennsylvania State University, 1983) is Distinguished Research
Professor at Drury University in Springfield, Missouri, USA and Guest Professor at
the Department of Information and Media Studies, Aarhus University (2009–2012).
Recent publications: Digital Media Ethics (Polity Press, 2009); (with Mia Consalvo,
coeditor), The Blackwell Handbook of Internet Studies (2010).
Glen Feighery (PhD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2004) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Utah, Salt
Lake City, USA. A former journalist, he teaches and writes about media ethics.
Julie Fitness (PhD, University of Canterbury, 1991) is Professor of Psychology at
Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. Her research interests include emotions,
betrayal, revenge, and forgiveness in marital and family contexts. She has also published on topics such as the emotionally intelligent marriage, and the causes and
consequences of familial rejection.
Shiv Ganesh (PhD, Purdue University, 2000) is a senior lecturer at the University
of Waikato, New Zealand. He studies issues of globalization in the context of social movements, civil society organizations, technology, and social justice. His work
has appeared in such outlets as Communication Monographs, Human Relations, the
Journal of Applied Communication Research, and Management Communication
Quarterly. He is coauthor, with George Cheney, Lars Christensen, and Ted Zorn,
of Organizational Communication in an Age of Globalization: Issues, Reflections,
Practices, now in its second edition
John Gastil (PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1994) is a professor of communication and political science at the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington, USA. His writings include The Group in Society (Sage, 2010), Political
Communication and Deliberation (Sage, 2008), Democracy in Small Groups (New
Society, 1993), and scholarly articles in various journals.
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Steven R. Goldzwig (PhD, Purdue University, 1985) is Professor of Communication Studies at Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA. Goldzwig’s
research interrogates the intersection between rhetoric, public policy, and public
values. He currently serves on the editorial boards of Communication Monographs
and the Journal of Communication. Goldzwig’s most recent book, Truman’s WhistleStop Campaign, was published by Texas A&M University Press in 2008.
Nurit Guttman (PhD, Rutgers University, 1996) is a senior lecturer in the Department of Communication and head of the Herzog Institute for Media, Politics and
Society at Tel Aviv University, Israel. Her research focuses on employing participatory approaches to social marketing, disseminating rights information, involving
citizens in policy issues, and using entertainment programs to advance social issues
(edutainment).
Marouf Hasian, Jr. (PhD, University of Georgia, 1993) is a Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. The
author of several books and dozens of scholarly articles and chapters in rhetoric, law,
and other areas, his research has earned numerous awards.
Leonard C. Hawes (PhD, University of Minnesota, 1970) is Professor of Communication at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. His research interests
include conflict resolution studies and cultural-critical communication studies.
Michael J. Hyde (PhD, Purdue University, 1977) is The University Distinguished
Professor of Communication Ethics, Department of Communication, Program in
Bioethics, Health, and Society, School of Medicine, Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA. His most recent book is Perfection: Coming to
Terms with Being Human (Baylor University Press, 2010).
Robert L. Ivie (PhD, Washington State University, 1972) is Professor of Rhetoric
and Public Culture in the Department of Communication and Culture at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana, USA. He also serves on the interdisciplinary faculties of American Studies and Cultural Studies. His research focuses on the critique
of war culture.
Timothy Kuhn (PhD, Arizona State University, 2000) is an Associate Professor in
the Department of Communication at the University of Colorado at Boulder, USA.
His scholarship addresses choices about, and consequences of, the social organization of economic production. Toward that end, he examines how identities, knowledge, and ethics are constituted in the communicative processes of organizing; these
interests connect in recent publications calling for the development of a distinctly
“communicative theory of the firm” to explain how distributed communication practices constitute—rather than merely occur within—the corporate form.
Jacquie L’Etang (PhD, University of Stirling, 2001) Senior Lecturer at Stirling
Media Research Institute, Scotland, has published on a range of critical themes in
PR including the history, ideology, rhetorics, and professionalization of PR, its role
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in corporate social responsibility (CSR), promotional culture, sport, tourism, and in
public and cultural diplomacy. Currently, she is pursuing interests in public relations
anthropology.
Josina M. Makau (PhD, UC Berkeley, 1980) is former arts and humanities dean,
founding Ethics Program Chair, and Professor of Philosophy and Communication
at California State University, Monterey Bay, USA. She is published widely in the
areas of communication ethics and moral reasoning. She teaches courses in ways of
knowing, interpersonal communication and conflict, deliberative argumentation, and
communication ethics.
Nasar Meer (PhD, University of Bristol, 2008) is a Lecturer in the School of Social
and Political Sciences at the University of Southampton, UK. He previously studied at Essex, Edinburgh, and Bristol Universities, and during his doctoral studies
held a visiting fellowship with the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and AfricanAmerican Studies, Harvard University, and currently holds a visiting fellowship with
the University of Aarhus. He is the author of Citizenship, Identity and the Politics of
Multiculturalism (Palgrave, 2010).
Tariq Modood (PhD, University of Wales, 1984) is the founding Director of the
Centre for the Study of Ethnicity and Citizenship at the University of Bristol, UK.
His latest books are Multiculturalism: A Civic Idea (Polity, 2007), and as coeditor
with G. B. Levey, Secularism, Religion and Multicultural Citizenship (CUP, 2009).
Mette Morsing (PhD, Copenhagen Business School, 1993) is Professor and Director of CBS Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility, Copenhagen Business School
(cbsCSR) in Denmark. Her research interests include critical approaches to corporate
communications and corporate social responsibility. Morsing has published 12 books
and her contributions have appeared in a number of journals such as Corporate Governance, Business Ethics: a European Review, Harvard-Deusto Business Review,and
Journal of Marketing Communications.
Dennis K. Mumby (PhD, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, 1985) is Professor and Chair in the Department of Communication Studies at the University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA. His research examines the relationships among
discourse, power, and identity in work settings. He has published several books,
including Communication and Power in Organizations (Ablex, 1988), Reworking
Gender (Sage, 2004, with Karen Ashcraft), and Engaging Organizational Communication Theory and Research (Sage, 2005, with Steve May).
Erin Ortiz is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Communication at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. Her research interests focus on several
issues relating to ethics and organizational communication, including human and
labor rights, corporate social responsibility, and accountability.
Sally Planalp (PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1983) is Professor, Department of Communication Studies, University of Texas at Austin, USA. Her expertise
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is in interpersonal communication, especially face-to-face interaction, close relationships, emotion, and health. Her current major projects are collaborating on communication training for Poison Control Centers and investigating the relationships
between hospice volunteers and patients.
Violeta Politoff (MA, University of Melbourne, 2008) is a research assistant at The
University of Melbourne, Australia. Her Master’s thesis examines the role of media
in the construction of contemporary forms of ecological citizenship. Currently,
Violeta is working on two research projects which investigate different aspects of the
relationship between journalism practice, ethics, and representation.
Richard Rieke (PhD, Ohio State University, 1964) is a Professor in the Department
of Communication at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. A former
administrator and consultant, he is the author of several books, numerous chapters,
and dozens of articles on argumentation, law, rhetoric, and related areas.
Zachary A. Schaefer is a doctoral candidate and the Marcia and Kirk Blackard
Fellow at Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas, USA. He studies how
organizational members use workplace humor, manage conflict, and discuss ethical
practices. Zach is an active community mediator and will be attending law school as
a means to promote social justice.
Matthew W. Seeger (PhD, Indiana University, 1982) is Professor and Chair of the
Department of Communication at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan,
USA. Seeger’s research interests concern ethics and organizational communication
including communication during crisis, risk communication, failure of complex organized systems, and postcrisis renewal.
Linda Tuhiwai Smith (PhD, University of Auckland, 1996) is Professor of Education
and Māori Development, and Pro Vice-Chancellor Māori at the University of Waikato in New Zealand. Well known for her 1998 book Decolonizing Methodologies:
Research and Indigenous Peoples, Professor Smith has made a major contribution
to the field of education, including indigenous education. Her recent publications
include the Handbook of Critical and Indigenous Methodologies (coedited with Norman Denzin and Yvonna Lincoln, 2009).
Slavko Splichal (PhD, University of Ljubljana, 1979) is Professor of Communication and Public Opinion at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana,
Slovenia, fellow of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, director of the
European Institute for Communication and Culture, and Editor of its journal
Javnost—The Public.
Leah Sprain (PhD, University of Washington, 2009) is Assistant Professor of Communication Studies at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Colorado, USA,
where she is also the Assistant Director of the Center for Public Deliberation. Her
research focuses on local practices of democracy. She is a coeditor of Social Movement to Address Climate Change.
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John Stewart (PhD, University of Southern California, 1970) is Vice President for
Academic Affairs at the University of Dubuque, USA. His research focuses on philosophy of communication, philosophy of dialogue, interpersonal communication,
and interpretive research philosophy and methods. He has also authored multiple
editions of two interpersonal communication textbooks.
Patricia A. Sullivan (PhD, University of Iowa, 1983) is Professor of Communication and Chair of the Department of Communication and Media at State University
of New York, New Paltz, USA. Current research projects focus on gender, race, and
class issues in political communication; political apologies; and ethics and political
communication. She is the coeditor or coauthor of three books. Her articles have
appeared in journals such as Quarterly Journal of Speech, Western Journal of Communication, Communication Quarterly, and Women and Politics.
Bryan C. Taylor (PhD, University of Utah, 1991) is Professor of Communication in
the University of Colorado, Boulder, USA. His research interests include organizational communication and cultural-critical communication studies.
Teresa L. Thompson (PhD, Temple University, 1980) is Professor of Communication at the University of Dayton, USA. She edits the journal Health Communication
and was selected as the 2009 Health Communication Scholar of the Year by the
National and International Communication Associations. She coedited the first and
second editions of the Handbook of Health Communication. Her work focuses on
numerous issues related to health communication, including organ donation and narrative perspectives.
Ole Thyssen (PhD, Copenhagen University, 1976) is Professor of Philosophy at
the Department of Management, Politics and Philosophy at Copenhagen Business
School, Denmark. His research interests include ethics, aesthetics, systems theory,
and political philosophy. He has received a lifelong award from the Danish state and
published 33 books. He publishes mainly in obscure journals such as Cybernetics
& Human Knowing and Ephemera, believing that books are more rewarding than
papers.
Stella Ting-Toomey (PhD, University of Washington, 1981) is a Professor of Human
Communication Studies at California State University, Fullerton, USA. Her research
interest has focused on testing and fine-tuning the conflict face-negotiation theory.
Stella’s most recent book includes The Sage Handbook of Conflict Communication
(with John G. Oetzel, Sage).